Math has become totally student driven. I say, "It's time to explore math!" and for about 5 minutes the room looks like chaos as students gather materials, computers, students with whom to work ... and it's pretty noisy. Then everyone settles down and all you hear is working noise.

My job is to circulate and watch and document understandings of concepts. I am at every student's beck and call. The kind of calls I get sound like this: "I finished a lesson can I go on to the next one?"; "I watched the video twice but I still don't get it can you do this problem with me?"; "Mallory and I got different answers for this problem and we both think ours is right, can you help us figure it out?"; or "Our group wants to do a few more problems can you give us some?" Talk about personalized!!!

I always announce when we only have 15 minutes left in our math period so students can stop and play concept related math games that I created. Lately I have noticed that some students still need the break and stop and play games but many like those pictured just keep going. Amazing that students would choose to work hard to the last minute!!! Love Blended Learning!